Thursday, May 3, 2018

So you went through all the steps to configure and deploy SSIS on Azure using an Azure SQL Server, Azure SQL Database (for SSISDB), Azure Data Factory v2 (ADF v2), and the Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime type but when you connect to the SQL Server using SSMS you don't see the familiar Integration Services Catalogs node. You see something like this:

Don't fret. You likely configured and deployed everything correctly and the service is eagerly awaiting your requests. All you have to do is explicitly specify the SSISDB when connecting. To do this, click the Options>> button in the connection dialog and enter SSISDB as the database name.